Heroines of the Slavery Era weaves oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and personal writings from North and South America and the Caribbean, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. These women of the slavery era include Aqualtune, a princess from Congo enslaved in Brazil and the Caribbean, who led an army of ten thousand warriors in the Battle of Mbwila; Anastasia, an African slave in Brazil, who today is considered the patron saint of Brazil’s blacks; Solitude, a slave in the French West Indies, the leader of the survivors of La Goyave and legendary in Guadeloupe to this day; Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston, a child prodigy and brilliant woman whose poetry is among the finest from the early American era; Harriet Tubman, heroine of the Underground Railroad who helped hundreds of other slaves escape to freedom in the United States and Canada; Ellen Craft, a slave who successfully escaped to Philadelphia with her husband; Sojourner Truth, famed orator on behalf of the rights of women and the abolition of slavery; and many others.

In Praise of Black Women, Volume 2: Heroines of the Slavery Era

Rejouis, Rose-Myriam

Schwarz-Bart, Simone

Schwarz-Bart, Andrem

Vinokurov, Val

Daval, Stephanie

Arts & Photography

University of Wisconsin Press

Modern African Women offers powerful and unforgettable tales from Senegal to South Africa, from the nineteenth century to the present. These modern African rulers, leaders, and visionaries include Madam Yoko, Queen of the Kpaa Mende and national heroine of Sierra Leone; Princess Kesso, a Fulani Muslim princess from Guinea who became one of the world’s first black models; Alice Lenshina, who fought British colonial rule in Zambia and was considered a prophet in the Lumpa Church; Ellen Kuzwayo, member of the African National Congress whose struggle for civil and women’s rights landed her in prison; Dulcie September, the ANC representative in France, killed for her ardent support for the cause of freedom; Miriam Makeba, internationally loved singer South African singer; Winnie Mandela, who carried on the struggle during Nelson Mandela’s long imprisonment; and many others.

In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women

Schwarz-Bart, André

Turner, Stephanie

A magnificently illustrated tribute to Black women in art and story; In Praise of Black Women is a magnificent tribute to women in Africa and the African Diaspora from the ancient past to the present. Lavishly illustrated, with text written and selected by the celebrated Guadeloupean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, this four-volume series celebrates remarkable women who distinguished themselves in their time and shaped the course of culture and history. Volume 1: Ancient African Queens weaves together oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and traveller's' tales from Egypt to southern Africa, from prehistory to the nineteenth century. These extraordinary women's stories, narrated in the style of African oral tradition, are absorbing, informative, and accessible. The abundant illustrations, many of them rare archival images, depict the diversity among Black women and make this volume a unique treasure for every art lover, every school, and every family.

In Praise of Black Women, Volume 4: Modern Women of the Diaspora (Volume 4)

In this novel Simone Schwarz-Bart shows the survival power of the women of Guadeloupe who live in conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation and yet who are filled with dauntless courage and love for life.

The Bridge of Beyond (Caribbean Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Heinemann

A monstrous beast has blocked out the sunlight and thrown the island of Guadeloupe into darkness. The beast is white domination, and Ti Jean must destroy this evil. In order to do so, he must explore not only contemporary Guadeloupe, but also the Africa of his ancestors.

Between Two Worlds

In this novel Simone Schwarz-Bart shows the survival power of the women of Guadeloupe who live in conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation and yet who are filled with dauntless courage and love for life.

The Bridge of Beyond

Scribner

Book by Fabien, Michile, Temerson, Catherine, Harris, Jessica, Mac Dougall, Jill, Schwarz-Bart, Simone, Johns, Timothy, Miller, Richard, Gallaire-Bourega, Fatima, Bonal, Denise

Plays By Women (Ubu Repertory Theater Publications)

Miller, Richard

Johns, Timothy

Temerson, Catherine

Harris, Jessica

Bonal, Denise

Mac Dougall, Jill

Fabien, Michile

Gallaire-Bourega, Fatima

Dramas & Plays

UBU Repertory Theater

This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around the villages, and Telumee, raised in the shelter of wide skirts, must learn how to navigate the adversities of a peasant community, the ecstasies of love, and domestic realities while arriving at her own precious happiness. In the words of Toussine, the wise, tender grandmother who raises her, “Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn’t ride you, you must ride it.” A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond relates the triumph of a generous and hopeful spirit, while offering a gorgeously lush, imaginative depiction of the flora, landscape, and customs of Guadeloupe. Simone Schwarz-Bart’s incantatory prose, interwoven with Creole proverbs and lore, appears here in a remarkable translation by Barbara Bray.

The Bridge of Beyond (New York Review Books Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

NYRB Classics

In a tale of West Indian legend, magic, folk-loric wisdom and reverence for the elderly or deceased, great-grandmother of Minerve, the elderly Telumee, tells the story of her difficult life after recounting the equally difficult experiences of her female ancestors.

Schwarz-Bart: Pluie et Vent sur Telumée Miracle (French Texts)

United States

Bristol Classical Press

Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes

SEUIL

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